[Dnsmasq-discuss] System tries to get its address by DHCP before dnsmasq starts up - how to stop it?

[Chris Green]

I have a little server system running dnsmasq version 2.59 under Ubuntu
12.04 (I have just upgraded it from Ubuntu 10.04).

While booting it tries to get its network configuration (using DHCP
presumably) from the LAN, since *it's* the DHCP server this doesn't work
but it wastes a lot of time waiting for things to time out and produces
various error messages on the way.

How do I configure the system so that it doesn't do this?

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Chris Green